Citywide has frequently appreciated the way the North Brooklyn and Bushwick art scenes are coming together. We’ve painted a picture of individual artists scrapping together to instill bygone industrial regions with beauty and poetry. We’ve admired these communities for providing evidence of the heart and purpose emitting from a generation of artists that many have ascribed a bleak future to. Here is an interview with choreographer Julia K. Gleich who is collaborating with several Bushwick artists to create a new ballet.

The program, shards and scenes, for Ballet Y Bushwick is a kind of stew of dances ranging from conceptual work to lightly narrative. The connection among these works is an image of windows and the gaps they create, opportunities and concealments, obscuring and revealing. Even in the less conceptual pieces there remains a vestige of the frame.

Concept and Choreography: Julia K. GleichSound design: Verbal Graffiti
Costumes and decor: Jason Andrew in collaboration with the Champlain Children’s Day Care and the children of Rouses Point
Researcher: Jason Andrew